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Medicaid Block Grants 101

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on January 27, 2017

Amid a great deal of speculation about the possibility of Congress and the new Trump administration turning Medicaid into a block grant program, Kaiser Health News has taken a step back to ask the question “What does this even mean?”

Among the issues the new article addresses are:

how a Medicaid block program might work

how block grants differ from per capita caps

why block grants are so interesting and so appealing to some public officials